Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

How I love David Bowie.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

My drive is other people’s success.

‚For Whom the Bell Tolls‘ was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.